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November 29, 2010

Collection Lenikus at Bauernmarkt just in the center of town, opened it's doors for only a few days. Ursula Maria Probst curated a show called "Crossing Limits: Art in Urban Transitions" with various artist (Katrina Daschner, Aldo Giannotti, Nicolas Jasmin, Sonia Leimer, Kirs Lemsalu, Corinne Rusch and others) as part of VIENNA ART WEEK.
The Lisabird's Art Collective is located in an interesting old building in the Grosse Mohrengasse in the 2nd district: Adel Abidin, Attila Szucs, Benjamin Cohen, Issa Salliander, meapi, Szilard Cseke, Voka, Yared Nigussu. Till Dec 15, 21010.

November 24, 2010

theartVIEw joins Clemens Wolf (former street) artist, who shows us around the 7th district of Vienna: At the Street Art Passage in the MQ we meet Vitus Weh, one of the publishers of the street art magazine "betonblumen". In the Siebensterngasse we enjoy high up on the wall the newest work by Claudio Ethos and end up at Inoperable, an art space where Martha Cooper shows her famous photographies of the street art sceen in NYC in the 70th and 80th. The street art tour was part of VIENNA ART WEEK

November 21, 2010

theartVIEw has a look at the 21er Haus construction site. Director Agnes Husslein-Arco shows us around (in german). The reopening of this museum for austrian modern and contemporary art near the new Viennese Hauptbahnhof is planned for September 2011.

November 18, 2010

theartVIEw among the hustle and bustle of the opening of ARTmART 2010 at k/haus, where you can buy a piece of art from more than 200 artists for only Euro 80. ARTmART is part of VIENNA ART WEEK 10, only until Nov. 21, 2010

November 12, 2010

MUMOK presents the Viennese Actionism in an international context: Gutai, Nouveau Réalisme, Fluxus, Pop Art and Happenings expanded art beyond the traditional easel painting. Found objects, unusual substances and the human body were the new "materials" to create an art that was more "real". And because of the radical nature of their artistic steps austrian artist like Nitsch, Brus, Muehl and Schwarzkogler occasionally even outstripped their international contemporaries like Yves Klein, Rauschenberg, Warhol, Christo, Beuys, Vostell.

November 11, 2010

Nina Canell, young swedish artist and winner of the Baloise Price 2010, presents her first solo show in a maior museum "To Let Stay Projecting As A Bit Of Branch On A Log By Not Chopping it Off" at the MUMOK. Till Jan. 30, 2010

November 08, 2010

theartVIEw walks around in "blind spot" at Alte Markthalle Wien Mitte where, as part of "eyes on", new photography meets an older layer of street art in one of the biggest and beautifully decayed off space in Vienna. Only until Nov. 14. 2010.

November 04, 2010

theartVIEw at this women only show in the Kunsthalle Vienna. The nine pioneers for Feminism in art proof that Pop Art was not an all male thing: Evelyne Axell, Sister Corita, Christa Dichgans, Rosalyn Drexler, Jann Haworth, Dorothy Iannone, Kiki Kogelnik, Marisol, Niki de Saint Phalle.